katapult howto?

[Troy Williams]

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golfer wrote:
> I'm not familiar with this, but am reading the quick start guide,
> which says Alt-Space will activate Katapult.
> 
> For me Alt-Space does nothing.  Typing 'katapult' in a konsole causes
> scrolling messages, like this:
> 
> :~$ katapult
> Ignored duplicate item: Konqueror
> Ignored duplicate item: Konqueror
> Ignored duplicate item: Konqueror
> Ignored duplicate item: Konqueror
> Ignored duplicate item: Synaptic Package Manager
> Ignored duplicate item: Language Selector
> Ignored duplicate item: Shared Folders
> Ignored duplicate item: Synaptic Package Manager
> Ignored duplicate item: Update Manager
> Ignored duplicate item: Networking
> 
> after a while the konsole stops and I have to hit Ctl-C to get back to
> the prompt.
> 
> I don't find any info with 'man katapult', on the wiki, or the
> doc/katapult/README.  What am I to do to use Katapult?
> 
> TIA,
> 

You *are* barking up the right tree.  It is not started by default (or
at least that has been my experience; you can set it up to start with
KDE which is what I have done.), that is why alt-space didn't do anything.

When you entered 'katapult' in a term you WERE starting it (thus all the
messages).  If you would have typed 'katapult &' it would have started
it in the background and given you the term back (you could also hit
alt-f2 and type 'katapult').  Best to just auto-start it at login.

Have fun with it.

Troy

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